[Ads-l] “belly-dipping”

[George Thompson]

Not in OED

For shame.

>From the NYTimes, April 22, 2025


Some bats drink directly by lapping water with their tongues as they fly
over a water source.  Others, such as flying foxes, drink indirectly by wetting
their fur and then licking it
<https://youtu.be/wi30w-Mk2yQ?feature=shared&t=79> — a strategy known as
“belly-dipping.”

GAT
-- 
George A. Thompson

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

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